And if you actually knew what I have written you would know that I have long said that people who employ undocumented workers should be severely punished.

You ready for some jail time because that gardener you employ is undocumented. ;-)

Doesn't matter what I want, it's what agribusinesses and the companies that employ illegals want.  I thought you were intelligent enough to understand that simple concept.

I have also said that we should close the border, provide green cards for those already here and then work through how we let these people become citizens.

The East Germans had only hundreds, not thousands, of miles of borders they tried to close to keep people from leaving.  How much of American money do you want to spend to try to achieve what a ruthless, dictatorial regime was unable to do?

And since I doubt you have ever worked outside of an office or such

Actually, I have.  Do you do balloon tricks?  Because your snippy habit of assuming things about people you don't like isn't very charming to say the least.

Combined with the pearl clutching you do when people say that you're not the greatest thing since sliced bread, I'd say you're in no position to be talking about what my work background does and doesn't include.

let me explain that unskilled labor is a commodity. By limiting it wages will go up and working conditions improve.

Not really, there are always more people willing to work at unskilled labor than there are jobs.  Look what happened in Georgia and Alabama when the illegals were pushed out of the farm labor market.

Jay Bookman
Ga's farm-labor crisis playing out as planned

7:22 am June 17, 2011, by Jay

NOTE: This post includes substantial material published earlier on this blog. It is published here as the electronic version of today's AJC column.

After enacting House Bill 87, a law designed to drive illegal immigrants out of Georgia, state officials appear shocked to discover that HB 87 is, well, driving a lot of illegal immigrants out of Georgia.

It might be funny if it wasn't so sad.

Thanks to the resulting labor shortage, Georgia farmers have been forced to leave millions of dollars' worth of blueberries, onions, melons and other crops unharvested and rotting in the fields. It has also put state officials into something of a panic at the damage they've done to Georgia's largest industry.

Barely a month ago, you might recall, Gov. Nathan Deal welcomed the TV cameras into his office as he proudly signed HB 87 into law. Two weeks later, with farmers howling, a scrambling Deal ordered a hasty investigation into the impact of the law he had just signed, as if all this had come as quite a surprise to him.

The results of that investigation have now been released. According to survey of 230 Georgia farmers conducted by Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black, farmers expect to need more than 11,000 workers at some point over the rest of the season, a number that probably underestimates the real need, since not every farmer in the state responded to the survey.

In response, Deal proposes that farmers try to hire the 2,000 unemployed criminal probationers estimated to live in southwest Georgia. Somehow, I suspect that would not be a partnership made in heaven for either party.

As an editorial in the Valdosta Daily Times notes, "Maybe this should have been prepared for, with farmers' input. Maybe the state should have discussed the ramifications with those directly affected. Maybe the immigration issue is not as easy as 'send them home,' but is a far more complex one in that maybe Georgia needs them, relies on them, and cannot successfully support the state's No. 1 economic engine without them."

According to the survey, more than 6,300 of the unclaimed jobs pay an hourly wage of just $7.25 to $8.99, or an average of roughly $8 an hour. Over a 40-hour work week in the South Georgia sun, that's $320 a week, before taxes, although most workers probably put in considerably longer hours. Another 3,200 jobs pay $9 to $11 an hour. And while our agriculture commissioner has been quoted as saying Georgia farms provide "$12, $13, $14, $16, $18-an-hour jobs," the survey reported just 169 openings out of more than 11,000 that pay $16 or more.

In addition, few of the jobs include benefits -- only 7.7 percent offer health insurance, and barely a third are even covered by workers compensation. And the truth is that even if all 2,000 probationers in the region agreed to work at those rates and stuck it out -- a highly unlikely event, to put it mildly -- it wouldn't fix the problem.

Given all that, Deal's pledge to find "viable and law-abiding solutions" to the problem that he helped create seems naively far-fetched. Again, if such solutions existed, they should have been put in place before the bill ever became law, because this impact was entirely predictable and in fact intended.

Of course your wine and veggies may go up, but can't you pay a bit more?

Don't drink much wine, and I live in Central California were we have veggies year round.  Don't hate us for that.

As to your "article," how do you know its real??

If you followed the link, you can read this:

Journal Reference:

    Fei Ji, Zhaohua Wu, Jianping Huang, Eric P. Chassignet. Evolution of land surface air temperature trend. Nature Climate Change, 2014; DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2223

Which means it was published after being peer-reviews in a respectable scientific journal.

That's how I know it's real.

It need not be Politically Correct.

Even a rascal of the first stripe occasionally says one.

`I don't know what you mean by "glory,"' Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. `Of course you don't -- till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"'

`But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument,"' Alice objected.

`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'

`The question is,' said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

`The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master - - that's all.'